This article addresses the differences between jurists of the three Shīʿī sects – Zaydīs, Ismāʿīlīs, and Twelver Shīʿīs – concerning the...
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Using primary sources drawn from websites, blogs, and online message boards, I will explore the ways in which digital fiqh alters the prescriptive discourses of this...
Read More »The History of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law
The history of the Jaʿfarī Shiʿa Islamic School of Law from its Inception to the Occultation...
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Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī’s maqāṣid al-sharīʿa paradigm is characterized as pragmatic epistemologically, more accessible and dynamic methodologically and employing a virtue ethic.
Read More »The Wahhabia Movement: The True Image+PDF
This text, prepared and published by Al-Ghadeer Center for Islamic Studies and translated by Hamid S. Atiyyah, reveals the facts about the Wahhabia doctrine and sheds lights on its origins, school of thought, and relation with...
Read More »Article: Islamic Perspectives on Human Cloning
The present paper seeks to assess various views from Islamic jurists relating to human cloning, which is one of the...
Read More »A Legal Jurisprudential Deliberation on Lineage and Inheritance of the Pre-Implantation Embryo
The pre-implantation embryo, as the product of human reproduction process through unconventional methods and as the result of advancement in...
Read More »Holy Peace or Holy War: Tolerance and Co-existence in the Islamic Tradition
In this paper, the writer attempts to delineate the Qur’anic position on peaceful coexistence with the “other” and also examines the classical juridical and exegetical pronouncements on...
Read More »Khums: A Support for Financial Independence Part II
In this article, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi examines the impact of khums on meeting the financial needs of the Muslim...
Read More »Article: Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Islamic Tradition
The Qur’anic view of peace and co-existence is interwoven with its view of a universal moral discourse that unites all human beings. According to the Qur’an, human beings are...
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